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FIFTHLY: I guess I better make 500 different forum topics to get my question answered. I thought that asking what a design doc is was okay. The rest was just extra info in case people asked questions. I gather thats a no-no?
While brevity is appreciated, it is preferable to keep all your related information in one thread, and giving some relevent background to your question is always a good way to improve the odds of good accurate answers. However, if you have unrelated questions at some later stage (by unrelated I mean along the lines of say... a rendering question and an AI question for example), then it is probably best to create seperate threads, in the relevent forum-section (AI in AI, etc). Cross-posting (ie. posting the same thing (or only slightly modified)) in two or more places however isnt appreciated.
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Whatever I said in there, it was really a rant at sumdude, and most of the people I actually know.
Just remember, the majority of people here are actually trying to be helpful, even the ones who come across as somewhat hostile - dont take out your anger on them.
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Some useful articles on Design Documents, as well as general design can be found in the resources section, here.
Of particular interest to you may be Chris Taylor's Design Document Template.
[edited by - kazgoroth on May 28, 2004 10:09:17 AM]